On 10/05/2015 05:21 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 08:06:42AM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> I'm assuming this is DNF and not some other change...
>
> Yum allowed multiple kernel-devel packages to be installed, dnf does not,
> which prevents you from building kernel modules for other kernel releases.
>
> Was there a good reason for this change in behavior?
This is not true.
$ rpm -q kernel-devel | sort
kernel-devel-4.0.4-202.fc21.x86_64
kernel-devel-4.1.5-200.fc22.x86_64
kernel-devel-4.1.6-200.fc22.x86_64
kernel-devel-4.1.6-201.fc22.x86_64
kernel-devel-4.1.7-200.fc22.x86_64
kernel-devel-4.1.8-200.fc22.x86_64
Maybe you are confusing with kernel-headers? If that is the case, it
has been like that for ages. And usually that should not be a problem,
specially between minor releases (as is the case for a given Fedora
release).
I think you had not read the entire thread before you responded. We later discovered him
to be on F21 and indeed on my F21 VM I confirmed....
[root@f21 dnf]# rpm -q kernel
kernel-4.0.7-200.fc21.x86_64
kernel-4.1.6-100.fc21.x86_64
kernel-4.1.7-100.fc21.x86_64
[root@f21 dnf]# rpm -q kernel-devel
kernel-devel-4.1.7-100.fc21.x86_64
[root@f21 dnf]# uname -r
4.1.7-100.fc21.x86_64
F22, on the other hand, is "better"
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